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Cancer victims deserve more than cartoon condescension
You don’t need to be an oncologist, I’d have thought, to know there is nothing very cute or cartoonish about cancer. Even if you’ve never met anyone who has had cancer and you don’t have more than a...
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Ovarian cancer kills Australian women needlessly, say campaigners
Lack of research means about 1,000 die every year from the eighth most common cancer There is a lack of research into the eighth most common cancer which kills 1,000 Australian women every year....
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NHS pays out £45million to cancer patients
The NHS has paid damages to almost 700 patients in the last eight years who brought successful compensation claims after hospitals missed giving them a vital cancer diagnosis. It means that on average...
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Transformed Lymphoma
By Ross Bonander A transformed lymphoma is a lymphoma that was initially diagnosed as indolent (slow-growing) but has transformed into an aggressive (fast-growing) disease. What causes an indolent...
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‘Worrying variation’ in prostate cancer treatment
Treatment and quality-of-life care for the most common form of cancer found in men varies ”worringly” across the country, campaigners have said. Reacting to a first-of-its-kind audit of prostate...
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Aspartame Not Linked to Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
By Ross Bonander Investigators from the American Cancer Society’s Epidemiology Research Program in Atlanta have concluded that the artificial sweetener aspartame, frequently- if dubiously- linked to...
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Genmab announces additional data from Phase III study of ofatumumab as...
Genmab A/S has announced additional data from the interim analysis of the ofatumumab (Arzerra™) Phase III study, PROLONG (OMB112517).
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Infant leukemia survivor reflects on ‘the hospital that raised me’
By Cancerwise Blogger By Ivana L. Camarillo I’ve been a fighter since I was a baby. As a childhood cancer survivor, strength runs through my blood and every cell I have. At 9 months old, I was...
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Awareness is key to survival of pancreatic cancer
TINA Hardy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the summer and has undergone successful treatment. To mark Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month she tells of the importance of spotting the symptoms...
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Words For Caregivers
By Guest Contributor Not long ago, CureWear Founder Alex Niles was enjoying life like any other 30-year old: late nights with friends, spontaneous global travel, and the passionate pursuit of...
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New approach helps women talk to their families about cancer risk
To understand their risk for hereditary forms of cancer, such as breast and colon cancer, women need to know their family history.
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Making peace with vulvar cancer diagnosis
By Cancerwise Blogger By Jami Mayberry When I was first diagnosed with vulvar cancer, I wasn’t sure what journey lie ahead of me. So many decisions to make. When my doctor, Patricia Eifel, M.D., laid...
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Researchers Find New Target for Kidney Cancer Therapy
Cincinnati Cancer Center (CCC) researchers have discovered that a membrane channel, Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 3, or TRPM3, promotes growth of kidney cancer tumors, and targeting this...
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Genentech® Access To Care Foundation Announces Changes to Eligibility Criteria
The Genentech Access to Care Foundation (GATCF), which provides Genentech medicines for free to people without insurance, is changing its eligibility criteria with the goal of helping more people who...
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Is HIV the cure to cancer? Married father-of-one, 30, now leukemia-free after...
A man who was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer two years ago is now amazingly in remission thanks to a revolutionary treatment that involved receiving an infusion of the virus...
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Use of hospice care by Medicare patients associated with lower rate of...
Medicare patients with poor prognosis cancers who received hospice care had significantly lower rates of hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and invasive procedures at the end…
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Stephen Sutton’s father supports new bowel cancer campaign
A campaign to tackle bowel cancer has been backed by a panel of medical experts as well as the father of Stephen Sutton, the fundraising teenager who died from the disease. Andy Sutton and his son...
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Stem Cell Transplant Should Be Considered at Diagnosis, Say Experts
By Ross Bonander In the October 2014 issue of Clinical Oncology News, hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) experts report that the growing consensus among them is that oncologists should begin the...
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Almost a quarter of breast conservation ops lead to further surgery
Researchers have found that 23% of patients studied required at least one additional operation following breast conservation surgery for breast cancer.
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Smoking associated with elevated risk of developing a second smoking-related...
Results of a federally-funded pooled analysis of five prospective cohort studies indicate that cigarette smoking prior to the first diagnosis of lung (stage I), bladder, kidney or head and neck…
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